Common Name Brades' Maxillaria [Brother Botanists in Costa Rica 1900's]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Costa Rica and Panama in premontane and lower montane rain forests at elevations of 700 to 1800 meters as a medium to giant sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose, unifoliate epiphyte and occasional terrestrial with decumbent canes comprised of successively arising shoots terminated by an ovoid to suborbicular, compressed pseudobulb enveloped basally by a few leaf bearing sheaths and carrying a single [2], narrowly elliptic, gradually widening towards the apex, acute, gradually narrowing below into the short, distinct, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer through fall on an axillary, 2.8" [7 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence enveloped by subtending floral bracts.

Similar to M ampliflorum but it has larger flowers with less purple in the floral segments, and a lip with a proportionally larger midlobe.